“The price of farmland has skyrocketed and the school could have probably made about a million dollars if they did sell the farmland, but ultimately, this man donated this to the school in hopes that it would not just be one lump of money that is here and then eventually is gone,” Seagler says.

From the late 1970s to 2011, the land was leased out for $25,000 annually. After the decision to grow crops and the creation of the Gruver Farm Foundation, the yield now amounts to about $400,000 a year.